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1,132 entries published in France. 8 publication places.

1898 CE–1901 CE

#364

I manoscritti de Leonardo da Vinci della Reale Biblioteca di Windsor. Pubblicata da Teodoro Sabachnikoff. Transcritti e annotati da Giovanni Piumati. 2 vols.

Includes folios A & B of his anatomical MSS. Text in French and Italian.

1899 CE

#4002

La photothérapie. Les rayons chimiques et la variole. La lumière comme agent d’excitabilité. Traitement du lupus vulgaire par des rayons chimiques concentrés.

Finsen was a pioneer in the treatment of lupus by means of light. English translation, 1901.

1899 CE

#1574.1

Le système nerveux centrale structure et fonctions. Histoire critique des théories et des doctrines. 2 vols.

Massive history of the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system from ancient Greece to the end of the 19th century, limited in its historical analysis. The second volume is a survey of end of 19th century opinions…

1899 CE

#9539

Les hôpitaux au XIXe siècle. Études, projets, discussions et programmes relatifs a leur construction.

Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

1899 CE

#4191.1

Sonde urétérale opaque. In Traité de chirurgie, 2e ed. vol. 7, p. 414.

Tuffier made the first pioneer attempt to visualize the urinary tract by the combination of an opaque ureteral styletted catheter and radiography.

1899 CE

#13420

Une chaire de médecine au XVe siècle. Un professeur à l'Université de Pavie de 1432 à 1472 avec un fac-simile d'autographe et cinq gravures

Biography, case records, and annotated list of Ferrari da Gradi's library. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1899 CE–1903 CE

#2811

Traité cliniques des maladies du coeur et de l’aorte. 3 vols.

Third and best edition. "Huchard, physician to the Necker Hospital was a foremost teacher in Paris at the end of the 19th century, and a great authority on angina pectoris and arteriosclerosis. He was a powerful advoc…

1900 CE

#3024

Chirurgie du grand sympathique et du corps thyroïde.

Jaboulay was the first to perform the operation of sympathectomy for the relief of vascular disease.

1900 CE

#11136

De la prostatectomie périnéale totale. Thèse de doctorat en médecine.

Proust performed the first radical perineal prostatectomy. He was the younger brother of the writer Marcel Proust. Digital facsimile from BnFgallica at this link.

1900 CE

#2040

Histoire de la pharmacie.

1900 CE

#6649.93

Histoire des femmes médecins depuis l’antiquité jusqu’à nos jours.

1900 CE

#14160

Histologie du pancreas. In Traité d'anatomie humaine, edited by Paul Julien Poirier & Adrien Charpy, vol. 4, pp. 821-831.

Laguesse, who in 1893 named the islets of Langerhans, established in this work that the islets of Langerhans were the seat of internal secretion of the pancreas. On figures 425 and 427 he drew that are now called "the…

1900 CE

#6344.1

Le nourrisson. Alimentation et hygiène.

Pioneer treatise on the care and feeding of premature and newborn infants. Budin sponsored the idea that an infant should be given milk equal in amount to one-tenth of its body weight. English translation, London, 1907.

1900 CE

#2336

Les maladies qu’on soigne à Berck.

An account of the work of the Rothschild Hospital at Berck-sur-Mer, where Calot specialized in the treatment of surgical tuberculosis in children.

1900 CE

#12816

Superstition, crime et misère en Chine.

Pages 275-288 are titled "Note sur la médecine des Mongols." Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1901 CE

#12210

Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. Lettres écrites d'Égypte à Cuvier, Jussieu, Lacépède, Monge, Desgenettes, Redouté le Jeune, Norry, etc., aux professeurs du muséum et à sa famille. Receuillies et publiées avec un préface et des notes par le Dr. E.-T. Hamy.

Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

1901 CE

#5998

Histoire des lunettes.

1901 CE

#9904

L'Avortement

1901 CE

#2555

L’immunité dans les maladies infectieuses.

A classic study of the mechanisms concerned in specific antibacterial immunity, and one of Metchnikoff’s best works. Russian edition: Nevospriimchivost’ k infekcionnim boleznyam. St. Petersburg: K.L. Rikke…

1901 CE–1906 CE

#3339

Histoire des maladies du pharynx. 5 vols.

1902 CE

#6607

L’art et la médecine.

1902 CE

#4590

Traité des maladies de la moëlle épinière.

1903 CE

#10101

Anatomie artistique des animaux.

Translated into English by George Haywood as Artistic anatomy of animals (London: Baillière, Tindall & Cox., 1904. Digital facsimile of the 1903 edition from the Hathi Trust at this link, of the English transla…

1903 CE

#13067

L'Étude expérimentale de l'intelligence.

Once education was made mandatory for all French children from ages six to fourteen, it became necessary to determine which children might be considered retarded. To do so the question arose concerning what test shoul…

1903 CE

#4296.5

L’urologie et les médecins urologues dans la médecine ancienne. Gilles de Corbeil: Sa vie- ses oeuvres- son poème des urines.

Reproduces rare documents and illustrations, with texts by Gilles de Corbeil and de Cuba. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1903 CE

#5459

La fièvre jaune.

Yellow fever convalescent serum employed. With A. T. Salimbeni and P. L. Simond.

1903 CE

#11132

La pratique des autopsies.

Considered the most beautiful book on autopsies. Digital facsimile from BnFgallica at this link.

1903 CE

#4954

Les obsessions et la psychasthénie.

Janet was the first to describe psychasthenia.

1903 CE

#11119

Les seins dans l'histoire.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1903 CE

#7217

Les tumeurs du rein.

Seminal work on renal tumors with unsurpassed descriptions of the clinical semiology of these diseases. In 1903 Albarran was the first "... to diagnose transitional cell carcinoma of the renal pelvis by detecting mali…

1904 CE

#4375

Les scolioses congénitales.

First description of platyspondylia.

1904 CE

#4139

Pityriasis et alopécies pelliculaires.

Classic account of the different varieties of Trichophyton.

1904 CE

#5278

Trypanosomes et trypanosomiases.

Laveran and Mesnil discovered that trypanosomes could be maintained indefinitely in rats and mice by serial passage.

1904 CE–1924 CE

#12952

Bibliotheca Sinica: Dictionnaire bibliographique des ouvrages relatifs à l'empire Chinois. Deuxième édition, revue, corrigée et considérablement augmentée. 4 vols. (1904-1908), plus Supplement (1923-1945).

The "standard enumerative bibliography" of 70,000 works on China up to 1921, including the full titles, tables of contents, and annotations regarding many books. Cordier was able to achieve this despite having only mi…

1905 CE

#4232

Exploration des fonctions rénales.

Albarran’s polyuria test for renal inadequacy.

1905 CE–1908 CE

#1634

Recherches sur l’épuration biologique et chimique des eaux d’égout. 8 vols.

1906 CE

#1652

L’hygiène publique à travers les âges.

1906 CE

#6554

La médecine et les médecins en France à l’époque de la Renaissance.

Wickersheimer, librarian of University of Strasbourg, contributed several scholarly works on the history of medicine.

1906 CE

#2563

Quelques remarques sur le lait aigri.

Metchnikoff researched the effect of lactic acid produced by Lactobacilli on other non-desirable bacteria in the digestive tract. He thus expanded Döderlein's (No. 6279) concept of "normal flora" beyond the vagin…

1907 CE

#12815

Enseignements médicaux de la Guerre Russo-Japonaise. Avec cartes, plans, croquis, schémas et photographies de l'auteur.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1907 CE

#8108

Physiologie de l'aéronaute: Travail du laboratoire de la clinique médicale de l'Hôtel-Dieu. M. le Professeur Dieulafoy.

Physiological studies of balloonists; extensive bibliography. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1907 CE

#4763

Traité des torticolis spasmodiques.

In this classic monograph, 357 cases of torticollis are recorded.

1908 CE

#13600

L'Honneur médical, manuel de déontologie élémentaire.

A treatise on medical ethics and the duties of the physician influenced by Christian religious beliefs. Translated into English by W.P. Grant as Medical etiquette (Handbook of elementary deontology). With a preface by…

1908 CE

#1158

L’hypophyse du cerveau. I. Physiologie.

Paulesco found that the removal of the anterior pituitary had fatal results, while removal of the posterior lobe had negative results.

1908 CE

#5781

Les tumeurs du sein.

1908 CE

#7110

Oppien d'Apamée, La chasse. Édition critique par Pierre Boudreaux.

Standard edition of the Cynegetica (Κυνηγετικά/KynÄ“getiká, 'On Hunting' ) by Oppian of Apamea. This edition was based upon a new collation of prior printed ed…

1909 CE

#4195

Médecine opératoire des voies urinaires.

Albarran, a Cuban, became a teacher of the highest rank and attained a professorship at Paris in 1892. He was the first surgeon in France to perform perineal prostatectomy.

1909 CE

#4005

Précis de dermatologie.

1909 CE–1915 CE

#6620

Épigraphie médicale. Corpus inscriptionum ad medicinam biologiamque spectantium. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

1910 CE

#1975

La thérapeutique en vingt médicaments.

Huchard and Fiessinger suggested that actual drug therapy should be limited to 20 medicaments.